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I pulled this toad out of my pool back in August and let him go in my backyard. About a week ago he showed up in my side garden. He has dug himself a little hole where he hangs out, but he comes and goes.

"Permaculture is a philosophy of working﻿ with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system."
Bill Mollison
co-founder of permaculture

Garden Buddy is still going strong this year. He showed up back in May and is almost a daily visitor to the terra cotta dish I have to be sure to keep full of fresh water. There's another smaller toad around here too, and a large family of blue tailed lizzards. I wish the toads would enjoy eating snails.

We have solar lights along our walkway garden and, for years, a big toad used to love to hang around underneath them to eat any nocturnal insects that were attracted by the light. Whenever I took my lab out last thing at night for her potty break, we would have to be careful not to step on her. We bought her a toad abode and placed it in a shady spot in the garden, but she never used it .